Whoo hoo! Great job, everyone. I already see a lot of contenders and will get crackin’ on choosing the winner. In the meantime, pick your toes, resume Christmas shopping, work, eat, nap, and give yourself a parrafin hand treatment. I’ll be back tonight when I announce the winner.

This photo needs a name. It’s a portrait of my nephew, Big Guy, and it’s always been one of my favorites. I think it really captures his personality and besides that, I just love the kid. Even though he’s really, really bossy and steals my keys.

To enter this impromptu contest, leave your suggested photo title in the Comments section of this post. One entry per person, please. Contest will end at 2:00 pm Central Time! I wanted to switch things up by a) Posting the photo a little later for my West Coast friends who sometimes seem to get beat by the early worms in the east, and b) Making the duration for this particular contest SHORT! It’ll be interesting to see how clever everyone can get in this brief amount of time. (Something tells me you’ll find a way…)Winner will be announced TONIGHT!

This is the third in a series of contests leading up to Christmas, and boy are my retinas tired! By the time the fourth contest is complete, you’ll all likely feel like the kid who was caught smoking. Remember him? To punish him for his mistake, his dad locked him in a closet and forced him to smoke the entire pack of cigarettes before he came out. He did, and the kid never, ever wanted to see another cigarette the rest of his life. It’s kinda like that here, except I didn’t catch you smoking. And I don’t really need to cure you of anything. And heck, the contests can be quite fun if you really think about it. And hey, there’s a prize at the end! So never mind on that kid-caught-smoking analogy. It was a fleeting brain freeze, brought about by the below-freezing temperatures outside. And my doughnut debacle yesterday.

The purpose of these pre-Christmas contests is to thank you for being such great readers and pals, to put you in the Christmas spirit, to give myself the chance to bask in your creativity for a few hours, and to make the Christmas load a tiny bit lighter for the contest winners. And since Amazon.com is always such a Christmas shopping lifesaver for this isolated and now home-bound-by-ice Pioneer Woman, today’s winner will receive a $500 Amazon.com gift certficate! Just think of the damage you’ll do.

So go forth and Give That Photo a Name! And hurry up about it. Time’s a wastin’!

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